Order of Graham Greene Books - OrderOfBooks.com Home | Characters | Authors Order of Graham Greene Books Graham Greene (1904-1991) was an English author of literary fiction and thriller novels, non-fiction, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays and more. His writing explored ambivalent moral and political issues of the world at the time. Greene’s work often contained Catholic themes, although he objected to being referred to as a “Catholic novelist.” He spent the final years of his life living in Switzerland, in the same town as Charlie Chaplin (the two were close friends). Graham Greene became a published author in 1925 with the poetry collection Babbling April. His first novel was The Man Within, published in 1929. His final novel was The Captain and the Enemy, which was published in 1988. Below is a list of Graham Greene’s books in order of when they were originally published: Publication Order of Standalone Novels The Man Within Contributors' Notes | Ploughshares Contributors' Notes Coordinating Editor for This Issue Stratis Haviaras Susannah Lee CONTRIBUTORS Anna Akhmatova / trans. Judith Hemschemeyer.

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), one of the great Russian poets of the 20th century, had a career spanning 55 years. Her early, startlingly original love lyrics won her almost instant fame, but she went on writing equally strong poetry through WWI, the Revolution, the Stalin years, WWII, and the Cold War. Many of her poems with political content have not been published in the USSR. The poems in this selection are from her early books; Zh 113 is from White Flock (1917); Zh 234 is from Plantain (1921); and Zh 244, 255, and 290 are from Ano Domini MCMXXI (1922). Judith Hemschemeyer's most recent book of poetry, Very Close and Very Slow, was published in 1975 by Wesleyan University Press. Her complete translation of Akhmatova, numbering more than 700 poems, is scheduled for publication in 1986 by Zephyr Press, Somerville, Mass.

It will be a two-volume, bilingual edition, including notes and a chronology. Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen / trans. Lisa Sapinkopf. Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen is the author of over ten volumes of poetry as well as translations, short stories, children's books, and a study of Greek sculpture. These poems are selected from her collection, entitled Coral. She is the recipient of the Grande Premio da Literature Portuguesa. Stanislaw Baranczak / trans. Richard Lourie. Stanislaw Baranczak, poet and scholar in exile, teaches Polish language and literature at Harvard University. His most recent publication in his native language is a study on the poetry of Zbigniew Herbert, which will also appear in English. Sven Birkerts / Sven Birkerts' astute literature essays and smaller articles on paraliterary and other attitudes, have been increasingly visible in select national and small press periodicals. He is at work on a book about contemporary poetry and poetics. Yves Bonnefoy / trans. Lisa Sapinkopf.

Yves Bonnefoy, one of France's most esteemed living poets, is also renowned for his translations of Shakespeare and Yeats, and for his works on art history. These poems are selected from his book, Yesterday's Barren Kingdom. His Poems 1959-1975, (translated by Richard Pevear), was published last June by Random House. Lisa Sapinkopf's translations have appeared, or are forthcoming, in the Partisan Review, Translation, Modern Poetry in Translation, and the Mississippi Review. She was the recipient of the Columbia Translation Award in 1983, and teaches Portuguese and French at the University of Washington. André Breton / trans. Richard Tillinghast. Andre Breton (1896-1966), was the founder of Surrealism. The Poems of Andre Breton, a Bilingual Anthology, Translated by Mary Anne Caws and Jean Pierre Cauvin, was published in 1982 by the University of Texas Press at Austin. Richard Tillinghast, guest editor of Ploughshares, Vol. 9, #2&3, teaches at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

His most recent book of poetry, Our Flag was Still There, was published by Wesleyan in 1984. Italo Calvino / trans. Ruth Feldman. Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 of Italian parents, and died in Siena, Italy, last fall, shortly after mailing to us his "Letter from the Sahara," and just weeks before his scheduled Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard. In 1945 he joined the Italian Resistance, and in 1945 the Communist Party together with fellow writers Cesare Pavese and Elio Vittorini, but withdrew in 1957. He is the author of many stories and novels, the most recent of which, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, and Mr. Palomar, were published in William Weaver's translation by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

In an accompanying letter, Calvino wrote that "Letter from the Sahara" is a page "from life." Raymond Carver / Raymond Carver, whom Cambridge University's Frank Kermode declared master of the short form, first took the critics by surprise with the publication of his first major collection of stories, Will you Please be Quiet Please? There followed What we Talk About when we Talk about Love, Fires, and Cathedral (Knopf, 1983), elevating Carver to international prominence. In 1985, Random House published, Where Water Comes Together with Water, a book of poetry. The poems in this issue are from a new manuscript, scheduled to appear in May from Random House, under the title Ultramarine. C.P. Cavafy / trans. Martin McKinsey. Thirty-six "notes," twenty-nine in Greek, and seven in English, written by C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933), between 1902 and 1911, were originally collected and edited with an introduction and notes by George Savidis, the literary scholar and Cavafy archivist.

The little book, entitled by its editor Unpublished Notes on Poetics and Ethics, was published in Athens by Hermes in 1983, the 50th anniversary of the poet's death. C.P. Cavafy's Complete Poems, translated into English by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, have been published by Princeton. Martin McKinsey's translations of poems by Elytis, Ritsos, and Engonopoulos have appeared in several literary magazines. Wei Chuang / trans. Robin D.S. Yates. Wei Chuang Chinese poet, 834 or 836-910 (see translator's preface). Robin D.S. Yates is a sinologist, teaching at Harvard. His translation of Wei Chuang's poetry, with an extensive introduction, and notes, will be published in the near future. Sonia Coutinho / trans. Lisa Sapinkopf. Sonia Coutinho is a Brazilian short story writer, novelist, translator, and journalist, whose book, Lucrecia's Poisons, won the Jabuti Prize for best volume of short fiction published in Brazil. Blaga Dimitrova / trans. Jascha Kessler & Alexander Shurbanov.

Blaga Dimitrova, born in 1922, is the author of some of the most impassioned love poems in the Bulgarian language, but her recent books have been increasingly meditative and dramatic. "Introduction to the Beyond" is from a suite of poems entitled A Requiem, which the poet composed for her father. Jascha Kessler, the translator of four volumes of poetry and fiction from various languages, including Geza Csath's short stories, Opium (Peguin 1983), is a poet and fiction writer, whose most recent stories are gathered in his books, Classical Illusions, and Transmigrations. Alexander Shurbanov, Professor of English, and Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Sofia University, was in 1980-82 Visiting Professor of Slavics at UCLA. Rami Ditzani / trans. Ruth Whitman. Rami Ditzani lives and writes in Jerusalem. These poems are from his first collection. Poems from the World of the Crippled in Spirit, published in 1984.

Alan Dugan / Alan Dugan's New and Collected Poems, 1961-1983, was published by Ecco in 1983. Dugan, who is serving on the poetry board of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Odysseus Elytis / trans. Martin McKinsey. The poetry of Odysseus Elytis (Nobel Prize 1979), is available in English in the following volumes: The Axion Esti, by Odysseus Elytis, translated by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis, Pittsburgh University Press, 1980. The Sovereign Sun, Selected Poems by Odysseus Elytis, translated by Kimon Friar, Ohio University Press, 1979. Odysseus Elytis, Selected Poems, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, Viking, 1982.

Maria Nephele, by Odysseus Elytis, translated by Athan Anagnostopoulos, Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Silvio Fiorani / trans. Lisa Sapinkopf. Silvio Fiorani, Jr. is a Brazilian author of three novels and one book of short stories. Over twenty of his stories have appeared in prestigious papers, journals, and anthologies. He is a regular contributor to Sao Paulo's leading newspaper and literary journal, Afinal and O Escritor. Graham Greene / Graham Greene, who was in the staff of The Times from 1926 to 1940, and served in the Foreign Office during WWII, is the author of many important novels, several of which were made into movies. Critics often refer to a turning point in his writing when he converted to Catholicism, and often wonder as to why he continues to elude the Nobel Committee. His first work, Babbling April, appeared in 1925. His latest published novel is The Tenth Man (Simon & Schuster, 1985). Margherita Guidacci / trans. Ruth Feldman.

Margherita Guidacci, born in Florence in 1921, is a leading Italian poet. She has translated into her native language Elizabeth Bishop and has taught English and American literature. Eugene Guillevic / trans. Norman Shapiro. Guillevic, born in 1907, is a major French poet, whose works in English translation include: Selected Poems, by Eugene Guillevic, translated by Denise Levertov, New Directions, 1969. Selected Poems, by Eugene Guillevic, translated by Teo Savory, Penguin, 1974. Euclidians, translated by Teo Savory, Unicorn Press, 1975 Norman Shapiro's translations of French novels, plays and poems have been widely published, the most recent of which, Fables from Old French: Aesop's Beasts and Bumpkins, appeared in 1984. His new collection of verse translations of the French fable over the ages includes many poets, ancient and modern. Günther Grass / trans. Bruce Berlind.

Günther Grass, who is mainly a novelist, is the author of The Tin Drum, Local Anesthetic, The Flounder, and The Meeting at Telgte. Bruce Berlind's translation of Selected Poems of Agnes Nemes Nagy was published by the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa in 1980. He is currently editing a special, translation issue of Graham House Review. Hafiz / trans. Elizabeth Gray. Khwaja Shams ud-Din Muhammad Hafiz-i Shirazi (1325-1389) is acknowledged to be the unrivalled master of the Persian ghazal, a lyric form roughly equivalent to the English sonnet in length, intensity, and complexity. Elizabeth Gray is a corporate lawyer. More of her translations from the Persian have appeared in The Agni Review, Antaeus, and The Falcon. Stratis Haviaras/Editor of this issue. Stratis Haviaras is the author of five books of poetry (four of them in Greek), and two novels: When the Tree Sings, and The Heroic Age, published by Simon & Schuster (and Penguin, 1985).

Seamus Heaney/Irish poet and essayist Seamus Heaney is Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. His most recent books are Sweeney Astray (1985 PEN Translation Prize), and Station Island, both published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. Heaney was the editor of a Transatlantic writing issue (Vol. 6, No. 1) and a special poetry issue (Vol. 10, #1) of Ploughshares. Miroslav Holub/trans. David Young and the author. These are new poems, written during Miroslav Holub's stay in the United States in the spring of 1985. His most recent collection in English, still unpublished in Czech, is Interferon, or, on Theater, translated by David Young and the author, and published in the Field Translation Series (#7). David Young's new collection of poems, Foraging, will be published early in 1986 by Wesleyan. He is an editor of Field, and he teaches at Oberlin College. Friedrich Hebbel/trans. Jay Boggis.

Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863), wrote plays, stories, and poems. These and many more aphorisms and observations were selected by the translator from throughout Hebbel's diaries, one of Kafka's favorite books. Hebbel also wrote longer entries, whch are autobiographical or amount to short essays on aesthetics. Many of his little stories or situations were sketches for plays he never wrote. Jay Boggis teaches expository writing at Harvard, and is finishing a novel about Vietnam. Vyacheslav Ivanov/trans. Richard Lourie. Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949), poet and philosopher, was an important member of the Russian Symbolist movement. Nicolai Kantchev/trans. Jascha Kessler & Alexander Shurbanov. Nicolai Kantchev, born in 1938, is one of the leading younger poets of Bulgaria. Kessler and Shurbanov have completed translating a selection of his poems, called Medusa, which is scheduled to appear in 1986 in the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Series. Naum Korzhavin/trans. Richard Lourie.

Naum Korzhavin, poet and play-wright, was born in Kiev in 1925. He left the USSR in 1973, and he now lives in Boston. Richard Lourie has translated works by Czeslaw Milosz, Tadeusz Kowincki, Yuri Trifonov, and Vladimir Voinovich, but he is primarily a fiction writer. His most recent novel, First Loyalty, was published last fall by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Ryszard Krynicki/trans. Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. Krynicki, born in 1943, is one of the most prominent poets of today's Poland. He is the author of several books of poetry. In recent years he has been writing almost exclusively very brief poems such as these, which are part of a forthcoming collection from Mr. Cogito Press. Stanislaw Baranczak is a poet and scholar, writing in Polish. Clare Cavanagh is a graduate student of Slavic literatures at Harvard. Karl Krolow/trans. Stuart Friebert. Karl Krolow is the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry.

He has also written criticism and fiction. His translations from the French, Spanish, and occasionally American, are distinguished by wide literary culture and immaculate technique. Krolow lives in Darmstadt, West Germany. Stuart Friebert has translated Karl Krolow's On Account of: Selected Poems, which was published last fall as #10 in the Field Translation Series. His own books of poetry include Uncertain Health, Up in Bed, and Dreaming of Floods. He is an editor of Field, and he teaches at Oberlin. Primo Levi/trans. Ruth Feldman. Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919. His collection of concentration camp stories, entitled Moments of Reprieve, will be published this winter in Ruth Feldman's translation, by Simon & Schuster. Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz, is the author of several important novels depicting the extermination of the Jews. All these poems here are from At an Uncertain Hour. Naguib Mahfouz/trans. James Kenneson with Soad Sobhi and Essam Fatouh. Naguib Mahfouz is the Arab world's foremost fiction writer.

Heinemann has published two of his books, Midaq Alley and Miramar, and is preparing his vast trilogy, the first volume of which, Between two Castles, was scheduled to appear last fall. Alleways, written in 1975, is the story of a boy growing up in the Cairo of 1919 to 1930, the period of Mahfouz's own boyhood there. The entire book in translation will be published in 1986 by Three Continents Press. James Kenneson, a fiction writer, coaches drama, creative writing, and basketball at the United World College of the American West. He translated Alleyways during a two-year stay in Cairo, in collaboration with Soad Sobhi and Essam Fatouh, both Egyptian scholars. Stein Mehren/trans. Nadia Christensen. Stein Mehren is a well-established poet who has won various literary awards in Norway. Nadia Christensen has translated much poetry from the Danish, including several books published by Curbstone Press, and is currently translating poetry, drama, and fiction from the Norwegian.

James Merrill/James Merrill, born 1927, American poet, novelist, and playwright; author of the monumental work, The Changing Light at Sandover, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize. His most recent work is Late Settings, published by Atheneum, last fall. Michael Milburn/Michael Milburn's poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Missouri Review, and Ploughshares. Eugenio Montale/trans. Jonathan Galassi. Eugenio Montale (1896-1981), was considered the greatest Italian poet since Leopardi. In addition to six books of poetry, and his distinguished work as a journalist, Montale also published essays, stories and translations, and was a talented amateur painter. He was made a member for life of the Italian Senate in 1967, and in 1975 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Jonathan Galassi is a poet, an editor at Random House in New York, and poetry editor of the Paris Review.

His translation of Otherwise: Last and First Poems of Eugenio Montale, was published in a bilingual edition in 1984, and Montale's selected essays. The Second Life of Art, in 1981. Henrik Nordbrandt/trans. Alexander Taylor and the author. Henrik Nordbrandt was born in Denmark in 1945, and lives much of the time in Greece and Turkey. The author of seventeen volumes of poetry, he has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including The Grand Prize of the Danish Academy. With Alexander Taylor, he co-translated three of his books into English: Selected Poems, God's House, and Armenia, all published by Curbstone Press, 321 Jackson Street, Willimantic, CT. 06226. Robert Nozick/Robert Nozick is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His first book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, won widespread acclaim and a National Book Award. His most recent book is Philosophical Explanations (Harvard University Press, 1981). "Theological Explanations" was delivered as the Henry Rapaport Lecture at Jewish Theological Seminary.

Ottó Orbán/trans. Jacsha Kessler & Maria Körösy. Ottó Orbán, born in 1936, is the author of seven volumes of poetry. His translations into the Hungarian language include a volume of selected poems and plays by Robert Lowell, and another by American, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish poets, entitled Golden Fleece. Orbán, who also writes nursery rhymes, was a fellow at the Iowa International Writers Program. Miriam Oren/trans. Ruth Whitman. Miriam Oren is a well-known critic, fiction writer, and poet, who lives in Tel Aviv. She has recently published her fourth collection of poems. Ruth Whitman, author and translator of seven books of poetry, was Senior Fulbright Writer-in-Residence in Jerusalem in 1984-85. Cesare Pavese/trans. Alan Williamson. These two poems are taken from Cesare Pavese's last sequence, "Death will come and look at me with your eyes," written a few months before his suicide in 1950 (he was born in 1908). They come out of an unhappy love affair with an American movie actress.

Constance Dowling; Pavese was better known in his lifetime for his novels, (the Strega Prize, 1950), than for his poetry. His most celebrated work of poetry, Hard Labor (translated into English by William Arrowsmith), was written in the 1930s when he was in village exile under Mussolini. Pavese also wrote journals, and he translated many English and American works into his native tongue. The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese, translated by R.W. Flint, was published in 1968 by Farrar Straus & Giroux. Vasko Popa/trans. Charles Simic. Vasko Popa, whose poetry has been translated throughout Europe, is the author of Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems 1956-75, Translation & Introduction by Charles Simic, Field Translation Series #, 1979. Charles Simic, editor of the next issue of Ploughshares, is the author of eight books of poetry, including Selected Poems, published last fall by Braziller. He teaches at the University of New Hampshire. Jean Baptiste Racine/trans. Richard Wilbur.

Racine, French playwright, 1639-1699 (see translator's preface). Richard Wilbur, American poet, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his own work, and the Bollingen Prize for his translations. Jacques Rigaut/trans. Ron Horning. Jaques Rigaut, a younger member of the dada and surrealist movements was born in 1899, and shot himself through the heart on November 5, 1929. Ron Horning lives in New York City, where he works on a first novel. He translates from the French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Yannis Ritsos/trans. Edmund Keeley. Yannis Ritsos was born in 1909 in Monemvasia, Greece. He is the author of many books of poetry, translated into many European languages, and the recipient of many international awards, including the Lenin Prize in 1977. Translations into English include: Ritsos in Parentheses, Trans. & Introduction by Edmund Keeley, Princeton University Press, 1979.

Graham Greene | British author | Britannica.com British author Alternative Title: Henry Graham Greene Graham Greene Robert Louis Stevenson Graham Greene, in full Henry Graham Greene (born October 2, 1904, Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , England —died April 3, 1991, Vevey, Switzerland ), English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist whose novels treat life’s moral ambiguities in the context of contemporary political settings. Graham Greene, 1969. Yousuf Karsh His father was the headmaster of Berkhamsted School, which Greene attended for some years. After running away from school, he was sent to London to a psychoanalyst in whose house he lived while under treatment. After studying at Balliol College, Oxford, Greene converted to Roman Catholicism in 1926, partly through the influence of his future wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning, whom he married in 1927. He moved to London and worked for The Times as a copy editor from 1926 to 1930.

His first published work was a book of verse, Babbling April (1925), and upon the modest success of his first novel , The Man Within (1929; adapted as the film The Smugglers, 1947), he quit The Times and worked as a film critic and literary editor for The Spectator until 1940. He then traveled widely for much of the next three decades as a freelance journalist, searching out locations for his novels in the process. Greene’s first three novels are held to be of small account. He began to come into his own with a thriller, Stamboul Train (1932; also published as Orient Express), which plays off various characters against each other as they ride a train from the English Channel to Istanbul. This was the first of a string of novels that he termed “ entertainments,” works similar to thrillers in their spare, tough language and their suspenseful, swiftly moving plots, but possessing greater moral complexity and depth. Stamboul Train was also the first of Greene’s many novels to be filmed (1934).

It was followed by three more entertainments that were equally popular with the reading public: A Gun for Sale (1936; also published as This Gun for Hire; films 1942 and, as Short Cut to Hell, 1957), The Confidential Agent (1939; film 1945), and The Ministry of Fear (1943; adapted as the film Ministry of Fear, 1945). A fifth entertainment, The Third Man, which was published in novel form in 1949, was originally a screenplay for a classic film directed by Carol Reed . One of Greene’s finest novels, Brighton Rock (1938; films 1947 and 2010), shares some elements with his entertainments—the protagonist is a hunted criminal roaming the underworld of an English sea resort—but explores the contrasting moral attitudes of its main characters with a new degree of intensity and emotional involvement. In this book, Greene contrasts a cheerful and warm-hearted humanist he obviously dislikes with a corrupt and violent teenage criminal whose tragic situation is intensified by a Roman Catholic upbringing.

Greene’s finest novel, The Power and the Glory (1940; also published as The Labyrinthine Ways; adapted as the film The Fugitive, 1947), has a more directly Catholic theme: the desperate wanderings of a priest who is hunted down in rural Mexico at a time when the church is outlawed there. The weak and alcoholic priest tries to fulfill his priestly duties despite the constant threat of death at the hands of a revolutionary government. Britannica Stories Ringling Bros. Folds Its Tent Greene worked for the Foreign Office during World War II and was stationed for a while at Freetown, Sierra Leone , the scene of another of his best-known novels, The Heart of the Matter (1948; film 1953). This book traces the decline of a kindhearted British colonial officer whose pity for his wife and mistress eventually leads him to commit suicide. The End of the Affair (1951; films 1955 and 1999) is narrated by an agnostic in love with a woman who forsakes him because of a religious conviction that brings her near to sainthood.

British Culture and Politics Greene’s next four novels were each set in a different Third World nation on the brink of political upheaval. The protagonist of A Burnt-Out Case (1961) is a Roman Catholic architect tired of adulation who meets a tragic end in the Belgian Congo shortly before that colony reaches independence. The Quiet American (1956; films 1958 and 2002) chronicles the doings of a well-intentioned American government agent in Vietnam in the midst of the anti-French uprising there in the early 1950s. Our Man in Havana (1958; film 1959) is set in Cuba just before the communist revolution there, while The Comedians (1966; film 1967) is set in Haiti during the rule of François Duvalier .

Greene’s last four novels, The Honorary Consul (1973; adapted as the film Beyond the Limit, 1983), The Human Factor (1978; film 1979), Monsignor Quixote (1982), and The Tenth Man (1985), represent a decline from the level of his best fiction. Britannica Lists & Quizzes Editor Picks: Exploring 10 Types of Basketball Movies The world Greene’s characters inhabit is a fallen one, and the tone of his works emphasizes the presence of evil as a palpable force. His novels display a consistent preoccupation with sin and moral failure acted out in seedy locales characterized by danger, violence, and physical decay. Greene’s chief concern is the moral and spiritual struggles within individuals, but the larger political and social settings of his novels give such conflicts an enhanced resonance . His early novels depict a shabby Depression-stricken Europe sliding toward fascism and war, while many of his subsequent novels are set in remote locales undergoing wars, revolutions, or other political upheavals.

Despite the downbeat tone of much of his subject matter, Greene was in fact one of the most widely read British novelists of the 20th century. His books’ unusual popularity is due partly to his production of thrillers featuring crime and intrigue but more importantly to his superb gifts as a storyteller, especially his masterful selection of detail and his use of realistic dialogue in a fast-paced narrative. Throughout his career, Greene was fascinated by film, and he often emulated cinematic techniques in his writing. No other British writer of this period was as aware as Greene of the power and influence of cinema. Greene published several collections of short stories, among them Nineteen Stories (1947; revised as Twenty-one Stories, 1954). Among his plays are The Living Room (performed 1952) and The Potting Shed (1957). His Collected Essays appeared in 1969. A Sort of Life (1971) is a memoir to 1931, to which Ways of Escape (1980) is a sequel.

In J’accuse (1982) Greene denounced a family friend’s former husband and showed evidence of government corruption in the French city of Nice . A collection of his film criticism is available in Mornings in the Dark: The Graham Greene Film Reader (1993). In 2007 a selection of his letters was published as Graham Greene: A Life in Letters. The unfinished manuscript The Empty Chair, a murder mystery that Greene began writing in 1926, was discovered in 2008; serialization of it began the following year. More about Graham Greene List of books by Graham Greene | Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing - eBooks | Read eBooks online List of books by Graham Greene Article Id: WHEBN0025080438 List of books by Graham Greene Author: List of books by Graham Greene This list is of books by Graham Greene .

Contents A Quick Look Behind (1983) Novels Rumour at Nightfall (1931) (repudiated by author, never re-published) Stamboul Train (1932) (also published as Orient Express) England Made Me (1935) (also published as The Shipwrecked) A Gun for Sale (1936) (also published as This Gun for Hire) The Captain and the Enemy (1988) No Man's Land (2005) (a film story, posthumously published with an incomplete film story, The Stranger's Hand) Autobiography A Sort of Life (1971) Ways of Escape (1980) Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement (1984) A World of My Own: A Dream Diary (1992) Travel books The Lawless Roads (1939) (also published as Another Mexico) In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (1961) A Weed Among the Flowers (1990) Plays The Return of A.J.Raffles (1975) The Great Jowett (19

81) [radio play] Yes and No (1983) For Whom the Bell Chimes (1983) Screenplays The Future's in the Air (1937) The New Britain (1940) Short stories The Bear Fell Free (1935) [1] Twenty-One Stories (1954) (originally "Nineteen Stories" [1947], the collection usually presents the stories in reverse chronological order) "The End of the Party" (1929) "The Second Death" (1929) "Brother" (1936) "A Chance For Mr Lever" (1936) "The Basement Room" (1936) (adapted by the author as The Fallen Idol , a film directed by Carol Reed ) "The Innocent" (1937) "A Little Place Off the Edgware Road" (1939) "The Case for the Defence" (1939) "When Greek Meets Greek" (1941) (elsewhere retitled "Her Uncle Versus His Father") "The Hint of an Explanation" (19

48) A Sense of Reality (1963) "Under the Garden" "Dream of a Strange Land" "A Discovery in the Woods" "Church Militant" (1956) May We Borrow Your Husband?

(1967) "May We Borrow Your Husband?" "Beauty" "Awful When You Think of It" "Doctor Crombie" "The Root of All Evil" "Two Gentle People" "The Man Who Stole the Eiffel Tower" "The Lieutenant Died Last" "A Branch of the Service" "An Old Man's Memory" "Murder for the Wrong Reason" "An Appointment With the General" Children's books The Little Train (1946, illus. Dorothy Craigie; 1973, illus. Edward Ardizzone) The Little Fire Engine (1950, illus. Dorothy Craigie; 1973, illus. Edward Ardizzone) The Little Horse Bus (1952, illus. Dorothy Craigie; 1974, illus. Edward Ardizzone) The Little Steamroller (1955, illus. Dorothy Craigie; 1974, illus. Edward Ardizzone) Other The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands (ed.

Greene, 1934) [2] British Dramatists (1942) Why Do I Write? An Exchange of Views between Elizabeth Bowen , Graham Greene and V.S. Pritchett (1948) [3] The Spy's Bedside Book (ed. with Hugh Greene , 1957) Introduction to My Silent War, by Kim Philby , 1968, British Intelligence double agent , mole for Soviets Collected Essays (1969) Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1974) An Impossible Woman: The Memories of Dottoressa Moor of Capri (ed. Greene, 1975) The Pleasure-Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935–40 (ed. John Russell Taylor, 1980) J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice (1982) Yours, etc.: Letters to the Press (1989) Why the Epigraph? (1989) The Graham Greene Film Reader: Reviews, Essays, Interviews and Film Stories (ed.

David Parkinson, 1993) Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene (ed. Ian Thomson, 2006) Graham Greene: A Life in Letters (ed. Richard Greene, 2007) References The Bear Fell Free (1935) A Gun for Sale (1936) The Captain and the Enemy (1988) No Man's Land (2005) In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (1961) Plays The Return of A.J. Raffles (1975) The Great Jowett (1981) For Whom the Bell Chimes (1983) Screenplays The Future's in the Air (1937) The New Britain (1940) A Sense of Reality (1963) May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967) The Last Word and Other Stories (1990) Short stories Sourced from World Heritage Encyclopedia™ licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Help to improve this article, make contributions at the Citational Source This article was sourced from Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

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His many books include The Third Man, The Comedians and Travels with My Aunt. He is the subject of an acclaimed three-volume biography by Norman Sherry. graham greene - 必应 Sign in Graham Greene Graham Greene, CM (born June 22, 1952) is a Canadian First Nations actor who has worked on stage, in film, and in TV productions in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Dances with Wolves (1990). the third man小说讲的是什么，小说作者是GRAHAM GREENE,急急急急!!!!!! 答 Vienna, devastated and recovering from World War II, is divided into four separate zones, each governed by one of the victorious Allies, and a jointly-administered international zone. Americ...

Graham Greene生平简介 答 基姆·菲尔比也是根据他的命令被录用进来并得到提拔的。战后他创作了大量的间谍小说，被派往非洲工作，但属墨守成规，工作逐渐由他的几位副手斯图尔特·孟席斯，信奉天主教，俅·辛克莱上将接替曼斯菲尔德·卡明上尉。当过记者。1923年。孟席斯精明强乾。在他任职期间发生了伯吉斯和麦克莱思的变节事件，但由于他年事已高。这三人中孟席斯权力最大 ，第二次世界大战期间他作为军情六处的官员... graham greene英文介绍 答 Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) - pseudonym Ellis Bell Perhaps the greatest writer of the three Brontë sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Emily Brontë published only one novel, WUTHERING ...

graham greene英文介绍 答 Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) - pseudonym Ellis Bell Perhaps the greatest writer of the three Brontë sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Emily Brontë published only one novel, WUTHERING HEIGHT... 他是个记者，他是那个国家的，都有些什么作品， 答 格雷厄姆·格林简介格林1904年出生于英国中部赫特福德郡。曾在牛津大学贝利奥学学院攻读历史。当过记者，信奉天主教，第二次世界大战期间他作为军情六处的官员被派往非洲。战后他创作了大量的间谍小说。被指控的间谍作家。最重要的间谍活动军情六处的情报员，被派往非洲工作。1923年，俅·辛克莱上将接替曼斯菲尔德·卡明上尉，担任军情六处处长，但由于他年事已高，工作逐渐...

只知道这是个英国作家，老师给的是英文原文，不知道有哪位大虾看过这本书，能告诉我大概内容也行，最好有评论。 答 为什么格雷厄姆·格林（Graham Greene）被提名那么多次诺贝尔文学奖，却始终未曾获奖？ 答 格雷厄姆·格林为什么拿不到诺贝尔文学奖，可以分两个阶段看：1968年前和1968年后。1968年前他被提名过几次，但都没有拿到，原因不外乎几种：他过于流行招致偏见、当年有和他同样够格的人选，或者运气不佳。比如1967年，格林和奥登竟然齐齐输给危地马拉的阿斯图里亚斯，奥登难道不够格么，而且他更穷，又去找谁哭？1968年之后，人为因素多一点，这一年Artur... Graham Greene Early life and career Greene is an Oneida born in Ohsweken, on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, the son of Lillian and John Greene, who was a paramedic and maintenance man. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario, as a young adult.

His first brushes with the entertainment industry came when he worked as an audio technician for rock bands based in Newfoundland and Labrador, when he went by the alias "Mabes". He graduated from the Toronto-based Centre for Indigenous Theatre's Native Theatre School program in 1974. Soon after, he began performing in professional theatre in Toronto and England.[citation needed] Graham Greene Career His TV debut was in an episode of The Great Detective in 1979, and his screen debut was in 1983 in Running Brave. He appeared in such films as Revolution and Powwow Highway, as well as the First Nations' CBC TV series Spirit Bay. It was his Academy Award–nominated role as Kicking Bird (Lakota: Ziŋtká Nagwáka) in the 1990 film Dances with Wolves that brought him fame. He followed this role with films and performances on TV series, including Thunderheart, Benefit of the Doubt, and Maverick, and the television series Northern Exposure and The Red Green Show. Greene also acted alongside Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson in the 1995 film Die Hard with a Vengeance, where he played Detective Joe Lambert.

He hosted the reality crime documentary show Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science. Greene co-starred as Slick Nakai with Adam Beach and Wes Studi in the film A Thief of Time (2004) and Coyote Waits, both adapted from Tony Hillerman novels of the same names and produced by Robert Redford. In 1992, Greene played the role of Ishi, the last Yahi, in the HBO drama The Last of His Tribe. He appeared that year in the contemporary action-mystery film, Thunderheart (1992), playing Walter Crow Horse, a gruff, savvy local cop living on an Indian reservation. In 1994, he began appearing as Mr. Crabby Tree in the children's series The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon, for which he received the Gemini Award. In 1997, Greene suffered a major depressive episode, and had to be hospitalized after a police encounter. He recovered after help from Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. Greene was featured as Arlen Bitterbuck, a Native American on death row in the Oscar-nominated The Green Mile (1999).

He starred in the short-lived television series Wolf Lake in 2001. In 2005, he played the potential love interest of the female lead in Transamerica. He appeared as himself in a parody of the famous Lakota-brand pain reliever commercials, on CBC Television's Rick Mercer Report.[citation needed] In 2006, Greene presented the documentary series The War that Made America, about the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) of the mid–18th century in North America. In 2007, he appeared as Shylock in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of The Merchant of Venice as well as Breakfast with Scot. In June 2008, he was awarded an honorary doctor of law degree from the Brantford campus of Wilfrid Laurier University located near the Six Nations reserve he is from. Greene provides the pre-recorded narration for the highly acclaimed outdoor drama, Tecumseh! in Chillicothe, Ohio, based upon the life of the illustrious Shawnee chief of that name. He portrayed Sitting Bull in a short Historica vignette.

He was a guest star in an episode of the TV series Numb3rs, as a First Nations chief. He also guest-starred on multiple occasions on The Red Green Show as Edgar "K.B." Montrose, an explosives enthusiast. In one episode "Red Green" asks him what he thought of the movie Dances with Wolves. Greene's reply was that "...the native guy (himself as 'Kicking Bird') was OK. Should have gotten the Oscar. But the rest of it was a yawn!"[citation needed] He appeared in The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Harry Clearwater, Charlie Swan's old friend. He played Rafe McCawley in the science fiction series Defiance, which ran for three seasons from 2013 to 2015, and in A&E's Longmire as Malachi Strand. He was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.

Graham Greene: The Tenth Man – The Mookse and the Gripes [A-] [A+] The Tenth Man by Graham Greene (1985, posthumously) Washington Square Press (1998) 160 pp In the introduction to The Tenth Man (revised and published 1985, written 1940s), author Graham Greene said that in “1948 when I was working on The Third Man I seem to have completely forgotten about a story called The Tenth Man which was ticking away like a time bomb somewhere in the archives of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in America.” He had written the story in story form as a basis for a screenplay, much like he did with other stories, but this one apparently slipped his mind. It wasn’t until 1983 that a stranger purchased the rights to the story and offered to let Greene revise it and publish it in novel (well, novella) form. With most writers I would not be excited to read a story they themselves forgot about. But from one of the best writers of the twentieth-century, I was more intrigued than put off. This is a short novel tightly packed into four parts.

The basic premise is this: thirty Frenchmen are in a German prison camp during Word War II. Among them is “a Paris lawyer called Chavel, a lonely fellow who made awkward attempts from time to time to prove himself human.” I don’t know how much work Greene put into revising the story, but when the book began I knew I was in good hands — it was so well put together. The first small chapter introduces the characters and the prison, but it is focused on watches and time in general; the prison itself is almost incidental. Two of the prisoners, one of them a mayor, have watches and they constantly bicker about whose has the correct time. On this particular day, the mayor’s watch stops because he forgot to wind it the night before. It is incredibly amusing to read Greene’s account of the mayor’s anxiety about finding some privacy in a small prison to wind and set his watch without being noticed, and thus losing his clout as the keeper of the correct time.

But that day was marked permanently in the mayor’s mind as one of the black days of terrible anxiety which form a private calendar: the day of his marriage; the day when his first child was born; the day of the council election; the day when his wife died. Though this is an amusing account, it is also a great vehicle Greene uses to describe the setting and mentality of the prisoners: “Prison leaves no sense unimpaired, and the sense of proportion is the first to go.” The tone of the book changes quickly when the guards come to tell the prisoners that three of them are to be executed the next morning — the prisoners can choose for themselves who it will be. To accomplish this impossible decision the men draw lots. Some men drew the first slip which touched their fingers; others seemed to suspect that fate was trying to force on them a particular slip and when they had drawn one a little way from the shoe would let it drop again and choose another. They draw lots in reverse alphabetical order, so one of the last to choose is a lawyer named Chavel. It’s a great scene as we watch Chavel calculate the odds. First, 10:1.

Then the first to draw chooses the marked paper, so the odds suddenly change to a comfortable 14.5:1. However, as more and more choose, the odds increasingly point to Chavel. Of course, he draws the marked paper. In a fit of anxiety Chavel offers all he has to someone willing to take his place. Surprisingly, someone accepts. Here the psychological story begins. Philosophers say that past, present and future exist simultaneously, and certainly in this heavy darkness many pasts came to life: a lorry drove up the Boulevard Montparnasse, a girl held out her mouth to be kissed, and a town council elected a mayor; and in the minds of three men the future stood as inalterably as birth — fifty yards of cinder track and a brick wall chipped and pitted. It seemed to Chavel now his hysteria was over that that simple track was infinitely more desirable after all than the long obscure route on which his own feet were planted. It may seem like I’ve given away a lot of the novel, but this is merely the stage setup. The rest of the novel is concerned with that “long obscure route” that Chavel has chosen.

But where most novelists would be content with this clever psychological game and would then simply show episodes where Chavel felt guilty or hollowed out, Greene explores so much more. Sure, there’s guilt and shame, but what about the possibility of love, of getting back all he signed away, of losing something even more valuable than his possessions and his life? Of having the opportunity to sink even lower? However, the joy of this short book is in the plot and the clever writing. It’s not a nuanced look at any psychological issues, politics, or anything else really. Perhaps in preparation for filming, the scenes are basic, the characters few. But despite that, it is densely packed and feels like a novel of more substantial size. It goes without saying that if I’m this intrigued by a story that Greene forgot about, I’m in for a treat when I read the ones he didn’t almost discard. A few, spoilerific, afterthoughts: I know Graham Greene was a bit annoyed at being categorized as a “Catholic writer” rather than as a writer who happened to be Catholic, but the ending of this novel makes it hard to escape that classification.

It was obvious the whole time that the book was moving toward Chavel’s redemption by death, though the path was unclear. Sadly, for me, the ending didn’t excite me as much as the rest of the book. It was a bit too convenient for my taste. And now I’m thinking of another “Catholic” writer whose stories always moved toward redemption but whose endings were less . . . uh . . . convenient: Flannery O’Connor. Remember the ending to “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” to “Good Country People,” to “Everything that Rises Must Converge.” O’Connor had the ability to execute her theme of redemption in shocking and upsetting ways. Always unexpected, her endings were perfect, both stylistically and in the context of the story. Though I loved reading The Tenth Man, I will never dwell on its resolution. It wasn’t shocking. It wasn’t strong. It is forgettable when compared to the rest of the story. And isn’t that a shame when the theme is redemption? Share this:

Question: Which author's first work was 'Babbling April' and his last 'The Tenth Man'?
Answer: Graham Greene